Overview of PLN's and their role in 21st century professional development.

1. Professional Learning Networks

2. Where do your teachers learn?

3. Professional Development??? Working with colleagues??? Scholarly journals???

6. Connectivism (Siemens) • Knowledge exists in the multiple connections we make • Weak connections vs. strong connections

7. RSS

9. RSS • Real Simple Syndication • Rich Site Summary

11. Push Vs. Pull

12. 1) Set up an account 2) Click on the “subscribe” icon 3) Click to “subscribe now” 4) Read your subscriptions

13. What can Orange do for you?

14. You

15. RSS in 21st Century Teaching and Learning

16. From David Parry, University of Albany “ The speed of reading in the age of the digital has changed, and we need to help students navigate this.

18. “ What RSS does is allow students to make this distinction, to receive content as "bits" easy to scan, and then to select what they want to read.”

23. “ writing for the web is a matter of continuous conversation rather than static paper design.”